Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) | History painter

Daniel Maclise was born to a family of Scottish descent. After a brief period working in a bank, Maclise’s passion for drawing led him to pursue a career in art which he studied at the Cork Society of Arts.

His lifelong interest in antiquities began through his acquaintance with the antiquarian Richard Sainthill and folklorist Thomas Crofton Croker.

Maclise copied from their collections, and they secured commissions for the young artist from their circle of wealthy and influential friends.

Stendhal: "Only great minds can afford a simple style"

• "Only great minds can afford a simple style".

• "f you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us".

• "One can acquire everything in solitude except character".

• "The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly".

• "I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase".

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres | Ritratto della Contessa d'Haussonville, 1845 | New York, The Frick Collection

Kríton Athanasoúlis | Brano dal mio Testamento/Απόσπασμα από την διαθήκη μου

Herodotus | The father of History

Non voglio che tu sia lo zimbello del mondo.

Ti lascio il sole che lasciò mio padre a me.

Le stelle brilleranno uguali ed uguali ti indurranno

le notti a dolce sonno.

Il mare t'empirà di sogni. Ti lascio

il mio sorriso amareggiato: fanne scialo

ma non tradirmi. Il mondo è povero

oggi. S'è tanto insanguinato questo mondo

ed è rimasto povero. Diventa ricco

tu guadagnando l'amore del mondo.

Mike Savad | Digital painter

"I was born in Texas, in an army base. I've always had a camera in my hand, mostly to keep me busy. It wasn't until about 20 years ago or so, when I got my first digital camera that I could experiment and learn how to do photography".

"Photo realistic is what people think of first. There are many themes, flowers, porches, and local Suburban Scenes, some city, some urban. I also have many Job inspired images that cover a quite a range. My art is inspired by Norman Rockwell 1894-1978🎨 and paintings from the time of the Renaissance🎨".

Michael Fitzpatrick | Figurative painter

Californian artist Michael Fitzpatrick started his art career in the mid sixties by attending Art Center College of Design in L.A. After graduating he went to work for D’Arcy, McManus, Masius Advertising in New York as an art director.

Next he moved back to the coast where he started and ran his own ad agency: Fitzpatrick and Walker adv. Drawing and design were always a large part of Michael’s daily activity.

Karl Bryullov | Neoclassicist / Romantic painter

Karl Pavlovich Bryullov / Карл Па́влович Брюлло́в (1799-1852), Russian painter who combined technical proficiency and Classical Academic training with a Romantic spontaneity to produce some of the liveliest examples of Russian art of the period.

Toby Boothman, 1973 | Hyper-Realist Still Life painter

British painter🎨 Toby Boothman was born in Bristol, and began training under Master Patrick Betaudier in Monflanquin, France at the Atelier Neo Medici. Since then, his career has flourished both in the UK and internationally.

With his studio based in the South of France, Boothman's inspiration from and love of the open water emanates from his work, reflecting the beauty and the light of his surroundings in the Gulf of St Tropez.

Boothman's modern approach takes roots in a Renaissance style allowing him to capture stunning realism in his nautical scenes. His dynamic depictions feature boats at sea with remarkable accuracy and clarity.

Ramón Gutiérrez, 1966 | Figurative painter

Ramón Gutiérrez is an young Spanish painter born in 1966 in Barcelona, Catalonia, known for working in the Impressionist Figurative style.

Trained in Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, this Artist has received significant critical acclaim and has exhibited at a wide range of Spanish galleries.

Discover the best paintings of this Spanish painter where his paintings blend the best combination of different materials giving a touch of preciousness abstract to realistic figures.

WanJin Gim, 1981 | Abstract painter

Seoul-based artist WanJin Gim illustrates the form and gesture of the human body using complex hatched layers of color and dramatic lighting.

He starts his career under the nickname "Willeys".

In 2016 he begins sharing his artworks with SNS. His passion for drawing manifests itself from a young age.

After graduating from the Animation Department he realizes that animation is not capturing him and chooses to work as a freelance filmmaker.

Bev Jozwiak, 1953 | Watercolor Figurative painter

Bev Jozwiak🎨 paints very directly, placing watercolor paint on the paper with very little mixing on the palette.

“I use lots of varied color in my blacks to keep them from going flat, in my whites to keep them glowing, and even in my skin tones to keep them interesting. Emotion plays an important part in every successful painting, so I choose only subjects that call to me and that gives my work energy and excitement”.

Dosso Dossi | Renaissance painter

A leader of the Ferrara School of painting from the Renaissance, Dosso Dossi (1490-1542) is well known for his enigmatic allegorical style.

Born Giovanni di Niccoló de Luteri in Tramuschio di Mirandola. Dossi’s father worked as a land agent, or bursar for the Este family, under their court in Ferrara; they would later become Dossi’s patrons.

It is said that he trained early on with Lorenzo Costa (1460-1535), also of the School of Ferrara painters. Though part of Costa’s influence was also important to the Bolognese school of painting.

Jacques Prévert / Willem Haenraets | Alicante...

An orange upon the table

Your dress on the rug

And you in my bed

Sweet present of the present

Freshness of the night

Warmth of my life.

Leopold Franz Kowalski | Genre painter

Léopold Franz Kowalski (1856-1931) was an French-born German painter, known for his canvases depicting genre scenes, figures and landscapes.

Kowalsky was a pupil of Jean Pillard and Henri Lehmann at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

He exhibited regularly in Paris from 1881 at the Salon des Artistes Français.

Michael Carson, 1972 | Expressionist painter

Michael Carson was born in Minneapolis, MN. He graduated from the Minneapolis Institute of Art and Design in 1996. Working as a graphic Artist, he painted his first painting three years after graduating from college.

He knew he had found his calling and in 2001, started painting full time.

Influenced by the paintings of Toulouse Lautrec, John Singer Sargent, Norman Rockwell, Malcolm Liepke, and Milt Kobayashi, Michael Carson is primarily a figurative Artist who likes to tell a story.

His figures usually find themselves in bars, nightclubs, cafes, and jazz clubs; even at home in intimate settings.

Daria Kropacheva, 1989 | Symbolist painter

Daria Kropacheva is an Moldovan Neo baroque and Symbolist painter who lives in a place called Chisinau in Moldova.

We were unable to find any more detail on Daria but perhaps there is little need - her art speaks loudly for itself - it sure is stunningly beautiful.

Her perfectly rendered characters dominate the canvas bursting with life, a sense of immortality and a subtle dark undercurrent of mystery.

George Tooker | Il pittore che catturò le ansie moderne

"Non penso di essere un creatore. Sento di essere un vaso passivo, un recettore o un traduttore... La cosa affascinante della pittura è la scoperta" - George Clair Tooker Jr. (pittore Statunitense. 1920-2011).

Tooker mescolava metodicamente i suoi colori a mano, usando acqua, tuorlo d'uovo e pigmento in polvere.

Ogni dipinto non è stato solo eseguito con cura, ma profondamente considerato intellettualmente.

La tempera è un metodo di pittura noioso e ad asciugatura rapida che è difficile da cambiare dopo essere stato applicato, e questo metodo deliberato si adattava alla disposizione ed alla teoria artistica di Tooker.

Gustav Klimt | L'astro del Secessionismo viennese

Sempre più in contrasto con i rigidi canoni accademici, nel 1897 il pittore Austriaco Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) fondò, insieme ad altri diciannove artisti la Wiener Sezession (Secessione Viennese), attuando anche il progetto di un periodico-manifesto del gruppo, Ver Sacrum (Primavera sacra), del quale verranno pubblicati 96 numeri, fino al 1903.

Gli artisti della Secessione aspiravano, oltre a portare l'arte al di fuori dei confini della tradizione accademica, in un florilegio di arti plastiche, design e architettura, anche ad una rinascita delle arti e dei mestieri: non vi era uno stile prediletto, sicché sotto l'egida di questo gruppo si riunirono i simbolisti, i naturalisti ed i modernisti.

Franz Marc | Espressionista tedesco

Franz Marc è stato un pittore Tedesco, uno dei fondatori del movimento Der Blaue Reiter - The Blue Rider.

È considerato uno dei pittori più rappresentativi del XX secolo e uno dei più rilevanti rappresentanti dell'espressionismo tedesco.

Nel 1900 si iscrive all'Accademia delle Belle Arti di Monaco.

Compì diversi viaggi, i più importanti due soggiorni a Parigi del 1903 e del 1907.

Tornato dalla prima visita Marc lasciò l'accademia. La seconda esperienza lasciò tracce ancora più evidenti dallo studio dell’opera di Van Gogh.

Angelo Inganni | Romantic Veduta painter

Angelo Inganni (November 24, 1807 - December 2, 1880) was an Italian painter.

Inganni exhibited views of various Italian cities in national and international exhibitions.

He was born in Brescia.

Angelo Inganni was taught the basics of art by his father Giovanni and his elder brother Francesco, with whom he worked on fresco decorations from when he was young.

Elie Anatole Pavil (1873-1948)

Nato a Odessa, Elie Anatole Pavil arrivò a Parigi nel 1892 e si dedicò a catturarne l'atmosfera su tela.

Per la maggior parte dei successivi cinquant'anni dipinse i caffè, le belle donne, i gruppi jazz e gli atelier di artisti di Parigi.

I suoi dipinti mostrano una conoscenza intima degli abitanti delle strade e dei vicoli di Montmartre.

Eleganti coppie che ballano, bellissime modelle in posa, uomini che lavorano che finiscono la giornata con un drink al bar, tutto è stato catturato nelle composizioni attentamente bilanciate di Pavil, molte delle quali mostrano la distinta influenza di Degas e Renoir.